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Old Park Dreams

by John Hardy

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1.
Fair Love 03:53
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Grey skies and streets Raindrops on feet To the fair, where you’re waiting for me One leaky shoe Gypsy tattoo Walton Avenue where I'm waiting for you You were the only ride at the fair Made my heart skip a beat, threw me up in the air Waltzing in cars Near and then far Lights flash through night, walking home through the park You were the only ride at the fair Made my heart skip a beat, threw me up in the air Remember the night We walked to the dawn The ride of our lives still keeping us warm
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Ebb 'n Flow 05:40
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Along the river by the factories Just past the dens with all those mucky magazines Our track-suit top code Growing up in the land across the road Teenage boys all getting high Running round and giggling singing ‘Lucy in the Sky’ The wind through the leaves The rolling brown fields Let me take you, back to the start Two beating hearts, side by side, The ebb and flow, the come and go, the come and go Photo frames holding people I don’t know Uncle Ernie built a boat in 1932 New bones old tricks 100 years of arguing the same old politics Let me take you, back to the start Two beating hearts, side by side, The ebb and flow, the come and go, the come and go Lying waiting, painting pictures in the clouds Making sense of nothing then except the here and now The wind through the leaves The rolling brown fields Let me take you, back to the start Two beating hearts, side by side, The ebb and flow, the come and go, the come and go
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Old Fashioned Lover 04:57
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I’m an old fashioned lover, with an old fashioned view You’ll always come first, I’ll always be true. I’m not the kind of man Who’ll buy flowers, write poetry It’s the strong and stubborn boy in me But when we kissed Underneath the apple tree Orchestra, rhapsody You, where my heart is kept You’re my working week and my Sunday best You; you're my master plan You’re the sun and moon, the whole shebang! I’ve scratched my record once before This tainted love will play no more Don’t need another turn Second hearts no longer burn But when we kissed Underneath the apple tree Orchestra, rhapsody You, where my heart is kept You’re my working week and my Sunday best You; you're my master plan You’re the sun and moon, the whole shebang! I’m an old fashioned lover I use old fashioned words You’re a catch, so I court you I’m a drunk, I’m absurd But when we kissed Underneath the apple tree Orchestra, rhapsody You, where my heart is kept You’re my working week and my Sunday best You; you're my master plan You’re the sun and moon, the whole shebang!
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Oh My Days 02:57
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We went walking in the Westwood together We went drinking in the park We knew nothing of our future, however We swore our love in the dark Skinny dreams and dirty jeans were formed along the river The mud could not subdue the spark Romantic plans, fumbling hands We swore our love in the dark And I say oh, oh my days I’m younger than I ever was and still stuck in my ways And half of me is wondering what the over half would say Tantamount to shout about the love both out and in you The chaos of our teenage hearts Sharing cans and swapping bands We swore our love in the dark And I say oh, oh my days I’m younger than I ever was and still stuck in my ways And half of me is wondering what the over half would say oh, oh my days I’m younger than I ever was and still stuck in my ways And half of me is wondering what the over half would say We went walking in the Westwood together We went drinking in the park.
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Moonkissed 04:04
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A walk in the park in autumn A snow man Christmas day A Valentine; fly away Bluebells held with ribbon Bluebirds born in spring Summertime; a wedding ring When it starts to feel familiar If it starts to be routine I will catch you off your guard And keep you close to me Sleepy eyes for morning A smile to start the day The afternoons; pass away Glass of wine for evening Night time falls outside Another moon-kissed goodnight When it starts to feel familiar If it starts to be routine I will catch you off your guard And keep you close to me I can read our story In the lines upon your face The years gone by, our fall to grace Holding hand on buses Grand kids round for tea The same old smile it’s you and me When it starts to feel familiar If it starts to be routine I will catch you off your guard And keep you close to me
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Dream Small 05:00
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In it for the long haul Prison’s only four walls Mercy can’t distract me I pay all my taxes Receipted them all Some of us dream small Tired of hearing moonshine Dancing with my boots on Lying while you’re standing An actor in a casting The curtain will fall Some of us dream small I remember you asked me What do you want to be? Then I just told you About the courage to dream Morons in a white house Painting all the black out Romeo is bleeding Othello he is kneeling Statues will fall Some of us dream small Tiny little country Sudoku chewing monkey See you all next Tuesday Elvis sings the blues day He shook it all Some of us dream small I remember you asked me What do you want to be? Then I just told you About the courage to dream Everybody’s got website Making up a half life Take me to the real thing Digitally healing Connection will stall Some of us dream small Punishment and kindness One is cheating with his mistress Jumped up pigeon End and no beginning The mighty will fall Some of us dream small

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released March 16, 2022

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John Hardy Nottingham, UK

'Driven vans, been in bands, had to buy my own mic stands' goes a line form track 3 on the EP Our Mate John. That's what I've done and it's taken me a long time to be able to write these songs. Trying to find my own voice, not to copy and be original is something not always rewarded in music, but it's something I strive to be. ... more

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